Animation… The Facts

What is Animation? – Animation is a series of motions and the brain and the human eye makes it works, animation itself is a trick.

What is Persistence of vision? – Persistence of vision is a blend of what is happening now and what happened a fraction of a second ago which gives us the ability to perceive a sequence of frames as a continuous moving picture. It is a lie…

What is a frame? – A frame is a perception of something within that frame and contains what you are looking at. The rule of thirds applies when taking a photograph or capturing a moving picture.

Frame rate? – Frame rate is the rate that the sequences move and is as follows:

25 fps in the UK

30 fps in the USA

60 fps in a video game

64 fps for slow motion

24fps for Kung Fu scenes.

Eadweard Muybridge – Created the first motion picture of the horse running this was simply an experiment to see if horses used all four legs while running.